Acts 26:16-18

New Century Version

¹⁶ Stand up! I have chosen you to be my servant and my witness—you will tell people the things that you have seen and the things that I will show you. This is why I have come to you today. ¹⁷ I will keep you safe from your own people and also from the others. I am sending you to them ¹⁸ to open their eyes so that they may turn away from darkness to the light, away from the power of Satan and to God. Then their sins can be forgiven, and they can have a place with those people who have been made holy by believing in me.’